Comments on: MintFamily with Beth Kobliner: Do Family Dinners Improve Your Finances? http://www.mint.com/blog/family/mintfamily-with-beth-kobliner-do-family-dinners-improve-your-finances-042012/ The blog of the free, simple personal finance solution. Track all your spending automatically, find the best deals, save more money. And save the world. Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Greg http://www.mint.com/blog/family/mintfamily-with-beth-kobliner-do-family-dinners-improve-your-finances-042012/comment-page-1/#comment-135349 Greg Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:52:10 +0000 http://www.mint.com/blog/?p=33339#comment-135349 Or maybe some families can afford to do it because one parent works full time and makes a good enough salary that the other one can manage a household full time (which includes sit-down meals as one duty). Then you have lower income families with two working parents who cant afford such a luxury because neither parent has the time or energy after putting in a full day. You claim causation by saying it can make you wealthier, where as it is much more likely to be simple correlation ... Or maybe some families can afford to do it because one parent works full time and makes a good enough salary that the other one can manage a household full time (which includes sit-down meals as one duty).

Then you have lower income families with two working parents who cant afford such a luxury because neither parent has the time or energy after putting in a full day.

You claim causation by saying it can make you wealthier, where as it is much more likely to be simple correlation …

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